Jan 20 Morning Planets

[brianb]

Couldn't resist imaging Saturn and Venus in the morning twilight. The seeing was bad so I used my little Willam Optics FLT 110 ...

I've caught the storm on Saturn. If I can do it with only 4.3" so can you!

2011 Jan 20, 0646 UT. Dia 17.8". CM1 072 deg, CM2 243 deg, CM3 348 deg. Alt 29 deg.

William Optics FLT 110, 4x Imagemate, Astronomik RGB colour seperation filters, Imaging Source DMK21 camera. 150% resize.

Venus was so low that I was struggling even with an infra-red pass filter.

2011 Jan 20, 0713 UT. Dia 21.9". Alt 11 deg.

William Optics FLT 110, 4x Imagemate, Astronomik Planet Pro 742 IR pass filter, Imaging Source DMK21 camera. 150% resize.

Note that the scale is the same, allowing a direct comparison between the size of Venus and Saturn.

Transparency poor and variable with mist banks forming and dispersing. Seeing poor to bad with continuous boiling. Temperature -03C, wind SE force 2-3, baro 1038 mb, rising very slowly.

[Jonobiwan]

Great pics

[AztecastroMcJ]

Very decent results there Brian,esp getting storm on Saturn,

shows worth trying even with smaller aperture scopes,

i had few viewing sessions of Saturn myself threw 127mak, but whenever i try to image, conditions deteriate and cloud cover begins so no recent captures for me yet,

thx for posting

James

[oldfruit]

Great results, especially Saturn. The storm is showing up really well.

[Kokatha man]

Nice images Brian, regardless of aperture!